http://www.broadwayundercover.com/rufus-sewell-rocks/ Backstage, Behind-the-Scenes and in the Front Row Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:22:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.broadwayundercover.com/rufus-sewell-rocks/#comment-22 Esther Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:31:44 +0000 http://www.broadwayundercover.com/rufus-sewell-rocks/#comment-22 I have to admit that "Rock 'n' Roll" left me kind of cold. I didn't like this play very much at all. It was too episodic, the way it kept flitting back and forth between England and Czechoslovakia. I never thought we got a real feel for what life for Jan was like under Communism. Yes, he went to jail, but how did that affect him? He seemed pretty much the same before and afterward. And the rock music selections didn't seem to have much to do with what was going on in a particular scene. The Syd Barrett stuff mystified me. I know a lot of people loved it, but it just didn't do anything for me. And I was really looking forward to it. Oh well. Part of it was, I'd seen "August: Osage County" the night before, and that was such gripping, emotional storytelling. I have to admit that “Rock ‘n’ Roll” left me kind of cold. I didn’t like this play very much at all. It was too episodic, the way it kept flitting back and forth between England and Czechoslovakia. I never thought we got a real feel for what life for Jan was like under Communism. Yes, he went to jail, but how did that affect him? He seemed pretty much the same before and afterward. And the rock music selections didn’t seem to have much to do with what was going on in a particular scene. The Syd Barrett stuff mystified me. I know a lot of people loved it, but it just didn’t do anything for me. And I was really looking forward to it. Oh well. Part of it was, I’d seen “August: Osage County” the night before, and that was such gripping, emotional storytelling.

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